B. Middle School Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1

Speaker 1

Book
Castle
Daughter

Speaker 2

Grapes
Airport
Pouch

Speaker 3

Gift
Cinema
Bikini

Speaker 4

Freezer
Keyboard
Spaghetti

Speaker 5

Dresser
Wound
Costume

Speaker 6

Cabin
Tongue
Cheese

Speaker 7

Sofa
Fox
Potato

Round 2

Speaker 1

Adventure
Brilliance
Warmth

Speaker 2

Wealth
Clarity
parenthood

Speaker 3

Marriage
Brutality
knowledge

Speaker 4

Unemployment
Riches
integrity

Speaker 5

Patience
experience
Beauty

Speaker 6

Luxury
patriotism
rumor

Speaker 7

imagination
Satisfaction
information

Round 3

Speaker 1

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one. --Chinese Proverb
No matter how tall the mountain is, it cannot block the sun. --Chinese Proverb
It takes two to tango.

Speaker 2

Flattery, like perfume, should be smelled but not swallowed.
All good things come to an end
However long the night, the dawn will break. --African Proverb

Speaker 3

Strike while the iron is hot
Knowledge is a garden. If it isn’t cultivated, you can’t harvest it. --African Proverb
May you get all your wishes but one, so that you will always have something to strive for! --Irish proverb

Speaker 4

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.
A good name is better than a good face. --Chinese Proverb
He who burns down his house knows why ashes cost a fortune. --African proverb

Speaker 5

A friend in need is a friend indeed
To know another is not to know the person's face, but to know the person's heart. --Chinese Proverb
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.

Speaker 6

A bird can roost but on one branch, a mouse can drink not more than its fill from a river. --Chinese Proverb
Why buy a cow when milk is so cheap?
A spider’s cobweb isn’t only its sleeping spring but also its food trap. --African proverb

Speaker 7

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same.
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
To try and to fail is not laziness. --African Proverb

Elim 1

Speaker 1

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. --Albert Einstein
Experience teaches only the teachable. --Aldous Huxley
Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. --Babe Ruth

Speaker 2

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. --Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Diligence is the mother of good luck. --Benjamin Franklin
There is always something left to love. --Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)

Speaker 3

Truth never damages a cause that is just. --Mahatma Gandhi
The question isn’t whether you’re a leader if people are following you. The question is, are you a leader worth following? --Sheryl Sandberg
The heart is not so easily changed but the head can be persuaded --Frozen

Speaker 4

The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. --Harvey Firestone
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age. --Albert Einstein
Today is a good day to try

Speaker 5

Change in all things is sweet. --Aristotle
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. --Andrew Carnegie

Speaker 6

A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position. --John Maxwell
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. --Benjamin Franklin
Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are the men who defy what the school has taught them. --Ludwig von Mises

Speaker 7

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. --Edgar J. Mohn
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.” --— James Allen

Round 4

Speaker 1

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. --Amelia Earhart
The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money. --James Madison
“If you aren't willing to be mocked, you’ll never be able to lead.” --— Naval Ravikant

Speaker 2

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. --General Dwight Eisenhower
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. --David Ben-Gurion
All men must serve. --Game of Thrones

Speaker 3

You're mad. Bonkers. Off your head. But I'll tell you a secret, all the best people are --Alice in Wonderland
There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. --Alexander Hamilton
Always let your conscience be your guide

Speaker 4

Money and success don’t change people; they merely amplify what is already there.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. It's got to be a vision you articulate clearly and forcefully on every occasion. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet.
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. --Bruce Lee

Speaker 5

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad. --Aldous Huxley
Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.”

Speaker 6

Feminism is the ability to choose what you want to do.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. --Albert Einstein
“I'd rather be No.2 forever than No. 1 for a while.” --— Paul Smith

Speaker 7

“Being human is not hard because you're doing it wrong, it's hard because you're doing it right. You will never change the fact that being human is hard, so you must change your idea that it was ever supposed to be easy.” --— Glennon Doyle, Untamed
I don't want to survive. I want to live
Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it. --Helen Keller

Speaker 8

"I help." --— Krzystof Kieslowski (When asked what a director does)
"Impossible is nothing." --— Elna Baker
Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny.

Speaker 9

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. --Barbra Streisand
When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old. --Bill Clinton

Speaker 10

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
“My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to stay sane.” --— David Sipress
Applause waits on success. --Benjamin Franklin